Lake Winnipeg - Edmonton, Canada

The straight deck bulk carrier Lake Winnipeg is seen in this photograph
as she was being pulled from the Govan drydock in Glascow, Scotland on June 15th, 1962. She
had just undergone conversion to a Great Lakes bulk carrier and was about to begin sea trials.

Lake Winnipeg was originally built as a T-2 tanker in the United States for the World
War II effort. The Kaiser Company, Ltd., drydock in Portland, Oregon launched the vessel
as Table Rock and she quickly went to work in Atlantic convoys. She was sold in 1948
after the war into the commercial merchant marine and her hane was eventually changed to
Nivose. Service as such continued until 1962 when the 19 year old vessel was
purchased by Nipigon Transports, Canada for conversion to a Great Lakes bulk carrier.

The tug on the left, wich is towing Lake Winnipeg out of the dock is named
Campaigner however the other two in the picture to the left of the ship couldn't be
identified from the picture.. Can you help...?

Thanks to Tommy Bryceland, Gourock, Scotland for this fantastic photograph